The Dark Flame (#42)

Big Finish Main Range

<big ole spoilers in this one, but why should you care?>

Dark energy beings from another universe? Threatening to take over
the entire universe? Why? Well, that’s never explained adequately for
me. Just to make things interesting, I think. I just don’t buy into
the bad guy, Silus Kroll. He ends up just being a nasty guy so that’s
why the dark flame is dark instead of light? It could’ve been the light
flame and a nice flame at that if the energy of the universe dying
could be contained that way. Or was the Doctor just bluffing and he
really was an energy being from another dimension? And give me a reason
to care… The robot was the best thing about this adventure. I just
never really felt like anyone as in danger. Cringing at the Benny
beating up Ace thing but other than when the robot, Joseph, was
meandering through the script, I wasn’t all that interested, honestly.

What more could I say? Hmmm. Slyde was a typical baddie with the
baddie voice. Lomar the goodie who went bad. Broke was like the butler
gone mad. Not much to say this is great but not much to say it’s
terrible. Doctor making big pronouncements and saving the universe at
the end. Again. Nothing too shocking. A cult gone mad! Decent
acting, an okay story, just nothing really all that gripping about it,
honestly. Disappointing for the final audio that Bernice Summerfield
participates in!